Posted on 02/18/2015 9:25:11 AM PST by Kaslin
The safest bet you can possibly make at the beginning of a presidential election cycle is that the "objective" national media will savage the Republican contenders with "investigative" journalism. Not just one Republican contender, but all the Republican contenders.
It's a bit amazing to look back at 2012 and remember that every Republican candidate was punched in the kisser by "journalism" if and when he or she inched into the lead. Sarah Palin never declared, but she was slimed in 2011 by NBC star Savannah Guthrie, who casually tossed out author Joe McGinniss's claims that she was a bad mother, that she and her husband used cocaine, and she had sex with an NBA star. Proof? Who needs it?
Then Michele Bachmann was investigated by ABC for charges her husband "prayed away the gay" as a therapist. The Washington Post was scandalized that Rick Perry painted over a rock with the N-word on a hunting property. Herman Cain faced nearly 100 network stories accusing him of sexual harassment before reporters offered a name of an accuser.
And the murder-go-round continued. ABC found the second Mrs. Newt Gingrich and asked her about his "skeletons" and mocked Newt for expounding on "family values." Newsweek reported Mrs. Rick Santorum used to cohabitate with an abortionist before she met her husband. To conclude a perfect round of liberal bias, The Washington Post wrote an epic 5,400-word article alleging Mitt Romney pushed a kid down and gave him a haircut in 1965.
We're barely into 2015 and it's happening again. While apparently no one in the national media wants to notice the overstuffed baggage train that holds the Hillary Clinton scandals, those partisan sleuths are back on the case of discrediting the Republican challengers.
While they waited to slime Romney in 2012 until the primaries were over, the media are already ripping into Jeb Bush, who they believe is the front-runner. Politico ran with this headline: "Jeb 'Put Me Through Hell': Michael Schiavo knows as well as anyone what Jeb Bush can do with executive power. He thinks you ought to know too." In other words, the villain of the Terri Schiavo story -- who would rather pull the feeding tube out of his wife than let her parents have custody -- thinks Jeb Bush is an evil man.
The Boston Globe dug into Jeb's high school years, and it was summarized by The Hill newspaper: "Jeb Bush was a pot-smoking bully, say former classmates." The Globe announced Jeb "bore little resemblance to his father, a star on many fronts at Andover, and might have been an even worse student than brother George. Classmates said he smoked a notable amount of pot -- as many did -- and sometimes bullied smaller students."
The Globe didn't do this to Obama -- or their beloved John Kerry.
The other early front-runner in the polls is now Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Once again, The Washington Post was on the prowl, publishing a 2,200-word article wondering why Walker decided to walk away from Marquette University before graduating, and focusing on details like he didn't perform well in French class and allegations of trashing a student newspaper in a student government election. Proof? Who needs it?
The Post never looked into Obama's college years.
The New York Times made the Post look like deep thinkers. Columnist Gail Collins claimed Milwaukee teachers lost their jobs in 2010 due to Walker cutting state aid to education. Though he wasn't sworn in as governor until 2011. The Times had to run a correction. The appetite for blood always remains.
But we ain't seen nothing yet.
Walker did well on Kelly last night.
So did Cruz. He explains the law so clearly. He’s a gem.
I think Cruz is on again tonight.
Conservatives should be trying to burn down the existing media and replace it with something that is at the very least fair and objective rather than biased to the left.
Believe me, the media will scour his records and conduct rectal exams on him and all other Pubbie candidates to "prove" they hate minorities and want to kill little children and starve old people.
I think a Walker/Cruz or Cruz/Walker ticket would fly for just about the vast majority of conservatives.
It will happen. Most likely to Walker. My sense is that he’s a good candidate who support legal immigration and not illegal. But past comments of someone running for governor before he ever thought of the presidency will be used against him, because he isn’t 100% clear that he’s talking about legal immigration. He says he was, but that won’t be good enough.
The same with Cruz, actually. His early comments when he first became a Senator were about legal immigration, but they’ll be taken out of context.
Curiously, both are sons of preachers. You’d think that social conservatives would side with them early on.
Between MSM hit pieces, GOP-E smear jobs, and conservative circular firing squads, the DNC and and their leftist goons have a pretty easy time of eliminating any potential threats to the their American fiefdom, and little opposition in selecting a jeb or hillary to head up their ongoing oligarchy.
Ask the Clintons, the Bushs’, or the Obamas, and they’ll all tell you that it’s good to be king.
All of those quotes (and on other subjects as well) are out of context, and will be misused as missiles to destroy both.
I don't post often lately, but I do like to point out the hyperbole of those who criticize either of those two candidates. If enough people follow suit in pointing out the nit picking, there is a possibility the crazies will either run away, or at least enough here will reject their nonsense.
I realize this is unlikely, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
The problem is that when we tear down the conservative candidates, then what are we left with?
The moneyed candidates.
The best way to get Jeb Bush as the nominee is to tear down Cruz or Walker. It’s a tried, true, and guaranteed method.
Anybody who doesn’t prefer Walker over Bush is in la-la-land.
“They absolutely CONTROL what many people think in this country, and they deliberately steer them towards their preferred candidates by their methods of “Reporting”
I don’t think it is so much they control what people think as they do not allow any opposing view to be heard. Even when they pretend to be balance they find a “pet conservative” to give a fake response.
We are living 1930s Soviet Union where only one view is allowed.
Jeb is not even half the candidate Romney was, who was never my choice as nominee. He's not telegenic, can't debate well, doesn't even excite many moderates, and is simply a bad candidate.
The only hope he has of the nomination is dividing conservatives so deeply that he walks through the center of the confusion and takes it.
Unlike Newt (who I preferred), neither Walker nor Cruz have much personal baggage, so the circular firing squad will have to exaggerate and make things up. Hopefully sanity will actually prevail here. We shall see.
“I can see Russia from my house. “
That would also be today’s Russia where a reporter will be called from the Kremlin and threatened if they report the truth.
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